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Search Tips, Translate Tools
05:20 PM - Sep 17, 2003

Here are just a few of the many helpful sources for searching faster and smarter. I’ve also listed several handy translation tools available for selected text or entire webpages.

Google [Google Pocket Guide, by Tara Calishian, Rael Dornfest (book cover)]

• Cool Search Tricks
  J.D. Lasica has provided quite a few helpful search tips via his February article.
• Happy Piles of Google hacks
  Helpful tips and additional search capabilities provided by Tara Calishain, Researchbuzz.
• Google Help Central

Translate Text or a Webpage

Bookmarklets, browser built-ins and add-ons:

• AltaVista’s Babel Fish
  See also Alta Vista’s Toolbar for Internet Explorer that includes a language translation feature.
• Google Language Tools
  See also Google’s Toolbar for Internet Explorer that includes a language translation feature.Screenshot of Opera’s hotlist, Translate highlighted.
• Opera
  Using Opera you can right-click on any highlighted content and translate it into a variety of languages. No bookmarklets or other tools needed.
• Translation Bookmarklets
  by Joe Maller. Quite a few language translation bookmarklets, or favelets, using Google or AltaVista’s language translation tools.
• Troels' Search and Translation Bookmarklets
  Bookmarklets for several versions of Netscape, Opera, Internet Explorer
• WWWJDIC Translation Aid
  Translate Japanese text from a webpage to English. A bookmarklet tool is also provided.

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